Eleusian Epiphanies

Eleusian Epiphanies

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This project merges pre-Hellenic ritual with Asiatic yogas for euphorians, eugis (okay, usually spelled 'yogis'), and other self-initiated spiritual Intrepids.

While the practice of the Eleusian Epiphanies provides a cheerful self-hypnosis not unlike 'religious' experience, they are cognitive and creative in effect.

We're placing our bets that Art, springing up at the hand/voice/heart intersection, is a livelier container for the ΞEpiphanies than religion. After these practices have been refined and established, our longer game (2020-2022) is to bring a full, relaxed attention into the spaces where art and dream originate.

Our collaborators will be appreciated in a number of ways, and the Tiers are being reconfigured this month (July 2019). By the beginning of August, we will have a greatly simplified Patreon structure - which will persist through 2020.

In 2021, we will start a capital campaign to fund the building of a Tholos (a round, ceramic brick meditational space) in Northern Greece.

Sacred Way

$3 or more per month

The Hieros Odos (Sacred Way) began near the Acropolis in Athens and wandered about 20 kilometers west to Eleusis, home of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

In addition to everything listed in the previous tier, your 3$ monthly support gives access to our private YouTube channel, with special content such as previews to the Peripateos (Sanctuary pilgrimages), yoga demonstrations, guided meditations and more! Your support allows us to create more robust A/V presentations and workshop materials. Thank you!

Naiad (waterbloom)

$10 or more per month

We only have enough Greek orange blossom and rose water to bottle about 8 of these, so this tier is limited. Your thanks will be a 30ml bottle of rose/orange water from Greece. Spray it in the air, step in, twirl around thrice and make your wish.

Goals

9 of 300 patrons

With our first hundred patrons in Tiers 1-5, we can finish writing the Eleusian Epiphanies - as well as design the workshops. Additionally, this support will be used to pick up membership with relevant cultural organizations and to attend their annual conferences and festivals.

With another 20 persons at Tier 6, Yours Truly will spin back to Greece for 21 days during the off-season, allowing me to enter the oracular sanctuaries without undue (touristy) attention. Additionally, I will look at real estate in several villages to determine the best place to establish the Tholos (Tamiris Beehive).

Another 180 patrons across all of the tiers will up the ante considerably, allowing us to design and manufacture the supports for the EEpiphanies (one involves a round yoga mat, for example); publish the research that goes into the development of these practices, and travel the workshops more frequently.

Please contact us about contributions to Tier 7 where we have a special fund set up.

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Welcome to the Patreon page for the Eλeuσian Eπiφanieς!

This project merges pre-Hellenic ritual with Asiatic yogas for euphorians, eugis (okay, usually spelled 'yogis'), and other self-initiated spiritual Intrepids.

While the practice of the Eleusian Epiphanies provides a cheerful self-hypnosis not unlike 'religious' experience, they are cognitive and creative in effect.

We're placing our bets that Art, springing up at the hand/voice/heart intersection, is a livelier container for the ΞEpiphanies than religion. After these practices have been refined and established, our longer game (2020-2022) is to bring a full, relaxed attention into the spaces where art and dream originate.

Our collaborators will be appreciated in a number of ways, and the Tiers are being reconfigured this month (July 2019). By the beginning of August, we will have a greatly simplified Patreon structure - which will persist through 2020.

In 2021, we will start a capital campaign to fund the building of a Tholos (a round, ceramic brick meditational space) in Northern Greece.

Sacred Way

$3 or more per month

The Hieros Odos (Sacred Way) began near the Acropolis in Athens and wandered about 20 kilometers west to Eleusis, home of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

In addition to everything listed in the previous tier, your 3$ monthly support gives access to our private YouTube channel, with special content such as previews to the Peripateos (Sanctuary pilgrimages), yoga demonstrations, guided meditations and more! Your support allows us to create more robust A/V presentations and workshop materials. Thank you!

Naiad (waterbloom)

$10 or more per month

We only have enough Greek orange blossom and rose water to bottle about 8 of these, so this tier is limited. Your thanks will be a 30ml bottle of rose/orange water from Greece. Spray it in the air, step in, twirl around thrice and make your wish.